4 International Backup and Disaster Recovery Vendors to Watch

Backup and disaster recovery solutions should be in every enterprise’s security toolkit. And now that hurricane season is in full swing, it’s more important than ever to ensure that your data is backed up and protected.

Vendors in this space are classified in various ways for potential buyers. Gartner releases a Magic Quadrant report that includes the tech giant’s top picks and Forrester Research ranks the providers in a Wave report using their own criteria.

So let’s do something a bit different and take a look at the vendors geographically. Here are 4 international backup and disaster recovery providers to keep an eye on:

BackupAssist

Headquarters: Box Hill, Victoria

Year founded: 2002

“BackupAssist is a backup software product created for use within Microsoft Windows environments. Developed by Cortex I.T Labs, it is aimed primarily at the small to medium business market and provides protection for Windows Server, SBS Server, Hyper-V, Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server,” according to the vendor.

NovaStor

Headquarters: Hamburg, Germany

Year founded: 1987

“NovaStor is a leading international provider of software solutions for data protection and availability. NovaStor provides backup software for small Windows environments, heterogeneous networks (Windows, Linux, Unix) and mulit-site data centers. NovaStor supports a transparent licensing model for clear pricing and long-term budget-security. Clients include home, mobile, and SMB users, service providers as well as international corporations,” according to the provider’s LinkedIn page.

NTT Communications

Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan

Year founded: 1999

“NTT Communications Corporation is renowned for its diverse information and communication technology, expertise in private networks, cloud, hosting and IP networking services, and industry leadership in IPv6 transit technology,” according to the provider. “Its extensive global IT infrastructure includes highly reliable low-latency private networks, expansive MPLS IP-VPN coverage, Ethernet VPN, Tier1 global IP backbone networks with one of the highest available transpacific capabilities, and secure data centers in Asia, North America and Europe.”

Veeam

Headquarters: Baar, Switzerland

Year founded: 2006

Veeam offers Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) as part of a “comprehensive availability strategy, embracing investments made in your datacenter and extending them through the hybrid cloud.”

“Affordable and efficient image-based replication delivers cloud-based disaster recovery for ALL applications (RTPO < 15 minutes) through the best and most trusted DRaaS providers across the globe,” according to the vendor.